Todd Grotenhuis

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:07:51 -0500

📚 I’ve been “stinge” reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, because it’s so excellent, with each entry being a different angle, a different poetry, a different voice, a different caution.

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:12:22 -0500

🎶 Sometimes I think about how Quake II soundtrack is still one of the best (industrial) rock albums of all time and what that means for the stuff other bands are slinging at us.

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 16:55:14 -0500

📚 Seems like linga plus standard ebooks could be a good way to practice language?

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:42:01 -0500

🕊️🎶🏆 Seriously considering creating an alternative to the Dove Awards called the “Bloody Lamb” awards, specifically for hard music. Non-commercial, grassroots, etc.

Send thoughts to:

bloodylamb@metalmennonite.com

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 17:16:41 -0500

🎲 I have two very nice RPG books I want to send to a good home, instead of HPB.

Dictionary of Mu by @Judd@mastodon.social . Very cool book but I have no interest in Sorceror.

Whitehack 2nd ed. notebook version by Christian Mehrstam. My fave d20 game, but I’m on to 4th ed. & had multiple copies.

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 17:11:28 -0500

Did some nice döstädning today, starting with a Half Price Books drop off, a rearrangement of some of our bookshelves (mainly our “collections” shelves) and clearing out of some other areas.

Feels better in the library now and we’re going to do puzzles now (traditional for spouse and Lego for me).

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:04:45 -0500

🎶 Remembering that time in college that I DJed on hard mode by playing Tool’s Ænima, forgetting how many bleeps I’d have to do.

I only missed a couple!

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:17:48 -0500

📑 Sunday Quote 🏴

(via @ayjay )

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 10:04:30 -0500

Worship leaders: “please stand in body or spirit”

Me: “imma stand in spirit”

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:42:21 -0500

📺 finally saw the Amsterdam episode of Ted Lasso. So charming!

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:17:55 -0500

🎶 as someone with a million Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Delerium, Conjure One, Noise Unit, Synæsthesia, etc. albums, I don’t say this lightly:

Rhys Fulber’s self-titled techno releases might be his best work.

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 17:24:00 -0500

🎶 How did I not know that there’s basically a new Cornerstone Festival? (Audiofeed)

That said, likely to be way more bands I want to see at Furnace Fest, which I intend to go to again this year.

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:59:52 -0500

Indiana HB1399 is a very bad bill

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:48:48 -0500

🕊️ Welcome to jail | Anabaptist World

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 07:46:24 -0500

📺 ok, I watched the new Daily Show. Stewart was hilarious, but Jordan Klepper’s reply about cynical-both-sidesism was 💯

The honest answer to “Clinton/Biden is a bad candidate” is “yes, but Trump is way way worse,” not “well they all kinda have their flaws and isn’t that funny?”

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:54:25 -0500

🎶 I am destroyed and ground to dust any time Silent Planet performs Panic Room.

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 21:04:13 -0500

🎶

Johnny Booth: sorry I missed them because it seems like they had some brain-smashing hardcore energy
Aviana: good tunes online but pretty monotonous in person
Thornhill: too often trying to be a Buffy band singer, but hard tracks were good

Time for some #homeworkcore from Silent Planet!

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 18:43:45 -0500

Making good choices on Fat Tuesday 🤭

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:43:35 -0500

I was skeptical but hopeful.

I’m excited to say the new notes feature for micro.blog has a lot of potential to become really useful.

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 17:10:37 -0500

I didn’t do this on purpose

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 12:58:37 -0500

TIL new words:

supernumerary
dysphemism

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 16:40:58 -0500

When we saw a mink on the trail cam, I thought it was an incredible treat. Did not expect to see one up close and in the daylight.

(Videos are of a mink in the creek and then passing us by while skittering along the creek bank.)

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:19:57 -0500

🔒 Guest lectured again. Had to be remote because COVID. The professor has a habit of getting a shot when I have a funny line on the slides.

Last time I was doing code/bug examples and my slide said “what could go wrong?”

This one is talking about rules of engagement and responsible disclosure.

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 11:45:09 -0500

🐢 Turtle sunbathing season has already begun on Turtle Willow.

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:51:21 -0500

🎶 What are the best 2-part songs? A couple I think of off the top of my head:

I feel a new playlist coming….